Roughly: If the tweet is from a following, place it in the home timeline. If the tweet refers to the user (to or from), or contains the @screenname place it in mentions If it's a message -> messages. What remains is probably a track term.
-John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:58 PM, isaiah <isa...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm implementing user streams in my client and looking for some advice > on best practices. My client supports viewing multiple timelines at > the same time, so it's quite possible to, for example: view a saved > search, the user's own home timeline, and another user's recent > tweets. > > Of course, I'd love to implement these in user streams. My concern is > that if each of these timelines were to open a separate stream > simultaneously, then the user could easily cross over their limit of > active streams. Another potential solution seems to be adding the > search and the second user as tracking parameters to a single user > stream. That works fine and the track parameter limitations seem to > be similar to the limitations of the UI/UX of my app, so it seemed > like a good fit. > > The challenge is that once track parameters are added to the stream I > get a whole bunch of new statuses returned but i can't tell which are > associated with each parameter. Or, well, I couldn't figure out how > to tell short of building a regex for each of my track parameters and > trying to sort the items by hand (yuck!). > > So my question: > 1. Is there some way to disambiguate statuses returned as a specific > track parameter from those returned for other reasons? > 2. Is there some other way to skin this cat that I'm missing? > > Thanks, > Isaiah > > -- > Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc > API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > Change your membership to this group: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
